Merge Requests for Branches

[JayP]

Hi,

Any plans of adding merge requests to branches?  I think it would be good to at least have the option.  Github allows for this so thought it would be a good thing to have since some teams use this as a form of telling other team members hey I have these changes I want to merge in can someone review them.  Thoughts?

Thanks,

Jay

[Marius Mårnes Mathiesen]

On Thu, Apr 5, 2012 at 5:43 PM, JayP <boso...@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi,

Any plans of adding merge requests to branches?  I think it would be good to at least have the option.  Github allows for this so thought it would be a good thing to have since some teams use this as a form of telling other team members hey I have these changes I want to merge in can someone review them.  Thoughts?

Jay,

I'm assuming you mean submitting a merge request to another branch in the same repository? If so: that's a really nice idea. In fact, I'm thinking that requiring that someone make a server clone of a repository to submit a merge request is wrong and results in a lot of zombie clones that noone uses. You may know that a merge request already exists as a ref in the repository the merge request should go into, so there really is no need to have a server clone to submit a merge request. Expect to see something along these lines in a few months (inshallah...)

Cheers,

- Marius

[JayP]

Hi Marius,

Yes I mean submitting a merge request to another branch in the same repository.  For our case it would be a remote branch in repositoryA and I want to submit a merge request from my remote branch to master on repositoryA.  I agree that having all these extra clones is extra overhead that isn't needed so having this feature for cleanup as well as nice process to follow would be nice.

Thanks,

Jay

[Marius Mårnes Mathiesen]

Raphau Nowak writes:
> ok i found this link
> http://gitorious.wordpress.com/2009/07/15/new-merge-request-functionality/ and
> i think with this it is possible, but i don't understand from where is the
> number 892 ? Is this a random number? A commit id? ...

It's an identifier, basically we have a counter of merge request for
each target repository, and each new merge request is assigned the next
available identifier.

Cheers,
- Marius

[Raphau Nowak]

Oh, then I misunderstood. I thought that I could create a merge request from the console. At this point I would not know the number at all.